Van den Berg–Caffarelli–Lin hexagonal conjecture for minimal partitions

Let Ω\Omega be a bounded planar domain of area A(Ω)A(\Omega), let Lk(Ω)\mathfrak L_k(\Omega) denote the minimal energy of a kk-partition of Ω\Omega, and let Hexa1Hexa_1 be the regular hexagon of area 11. Van den Berg–Caffarelli–Lin hexagonal conjecture.

A(Ω)lim infk+Lk(Ω)k=A(Ω)lim supk+Lk(Ω)k=λ(Hexa1).A(\Omega)\liminf_{k\rightarrow +\infty}\frac{\mathfrak L_k(\Omega)}{k}=A(\Omega)\limsup_{k\rightarrow +\infty}\frac{\mathfrak L_k(\Omega)}{k}=\lambda(Hexa_1).

Hexagonal tilings give the corresponding upper bound, but equality with the hexagonal value is not known in general; the conjecture predicts the asymptotic optimality of regular hexagonal cells.

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Bernard Helffer and Thomas Hoffmann-Ostenhof, “A review on large k minimal spectral k-partitions and Pleijel's Theorem”, arXiv:1509.04501 (2015).

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